Indiana Senate Votes In Favor Of Utah-Reminiscent Gay Marriage Ban
Posted By Eric Ethington (Author) on March 29, 2011
Indiana – The Senate just finished voting this afternoon to create a constitutional amendment which bans not only same sex marriage, but also civil unions and anything else which could possibly be misconstrued as being “similar to marriage.” Vote passed 40-10.
After several months of debate, the State Senate has finally sided with bigotry and hated. Although gay marriage is already illegal in Indiana, the legislature is claiming that they are worried judges may overturn the current ban. If a constitutional amendment is passed, then a state judge won’t have the power to do change that.
Fortunately, Indiana is a state which requires that constitutional amendments not only be passed by the House and the Senate once, but again in 2014 when a separately-elected legislature has been voted in. And even then it would have to go to a citizen vote.
"Eric, trying to have this (civil rights) conversation with you is ultimately like trying to teach a pig to dance, it just annoys the pig. So Eric, sorry to annoy you."
-Paul Mero, The Sutherland Institute.
The sheer scope of this bill is breathtaking. I understand the “marriage” part, but to ban civil unions or any contractual arrangement between two consenting parties is cruel and hateful. Maybe the Christian conservatives behind this outrage are unknowingly doing the work of the Devil himself. And one more time (for all those supposed libertarians who feel asleep in high school civics): THE PEOPLE SHOULDN’T VOTE ON THE CIVIL RIGHTS OF OTHERS!